Daiichi Sankyo had a day of mixed fortunes after advisers to the US regulator voted against approval for its leukaemia drug quizartinib, but recommended pexidartinib for a rare tumour.
In March AstraZeneca asked investors for $3.5 billion to fund a collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo over a new breast cancer drug – and it looks like the project is on track.
AstraZeneca is to raise $3.5 billion to fund a global development and marketing collaboration with Daiichi Sankyo, for an antibody-drug conjugate and potential new targeted cancer medicine,
Daiichi Sankyo’s Lixiana was a late entrant to the novel oral anticoagulant (NOAC) category, but the Japanese drugmaker hopes new data in atrial fibrillation (AFib) could accelerate its gro
Daiichi Sankyo has been given a priority review from the FDA for pexidartinib, which is vying to become the first systemic drug therapy for rare cancer tenosynovial giant cell tumour (TGCT).
Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo has joined an open innovation research initiative that will try to develop a therapy for type 1 diabetes based on insulin-producing cells.